Pacific Travellers
pp. 100-101 · Read in the full issue
Departures from Sydney in December included (reading from left to right and from top down): Mr. P. F. D. Palmer, BP’s Manager at Fanning Is., returning per Muliama, fol lowing leave in Australia. . . . Mr. John C. Fisher, proceeding to Fanning Is. per Mulliama to relieve Mr. Wally Ewins as Accountant for OTC.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Corrigan returning to IMalaita after 6 weeks in Australia. Mr.
Corrigan is building a number of Leper hospitals for the Marist Mission—financed by the inter-denominational Lepers’ Trust Fund of NZ. The hospitals will be located at Buma, Rohinara, Tarapaina and Rokera, on Malaita, and others on Gua dalcanal and San Cristobal. Mr. Corri gan has had a very satisfactory visit to Australia seeking further building materials. ... Mr. H. M. Davies, Director
of Tenaru Timbers Ltd., returning Tenaru (17 m. east of Honiara, Guadalcanal). (Mr. Davies, still wean a brace, arrived in Australia a mon ago with an injured back. He repoi that tests of Tenaru timber by Austral! plywood manufacturers have been v promising.” Mr. Davies has been 1- yes in the Solomons.
Mr J. W. Grimmer, of Itikinumu ri ber plantation, Papua, returned from 3-weeks business trip to Java, where studied rubber production methods, i tensions to the 1,500-acres Papua pla tation, located 35 miles east of P< Moresby, are anticipated for !953. .
William Bliss, pupil at Caulfield Gra mar School, returned home to his fatnc plantation near Serang, 40 miles west Madang. . n Monsieur Jean Galmie, Mayor of Ko New Caledonia, came to Sydney to esc his attractive daughter daude, p upil St. Vincents College, home for the Chn mas holidays. . . . Mrs. M. Soley a daughter joined the RAN col ° n y Manus. NG. Mrs. Soley s husband Port Officer, HMAS Tarangau (Manu Only passenger and only woman abo the ship, (Miss B. J. Cooper, of Pe (WA) described her voyage from Vila “quite an experience.” Miss Cooper f from Sydney to Norfolk Is.; had “glorious 4 months” there, then went
o friends near Vila, per Morinda. For liss Cooper, no island can ever equal lorfolk for interest, hospitality and :limate. ... Mr. Les Farley, of Seaway ehvenes who left Sydney in command f the 34-foot motor-cutter Seamist, on
delivery to Mr. C. Younger, of Cape Marsh Plantation, Russell Is., BSI. The vessel was built at Lakes’ Entrance, Vic., in 1948, and purchased through W. M. Reed & Co. of Sydney. Delivery was by way of Queensland ports, Samarai and Gizo.
. -Albrecht, sales manager for M. Kerry Pty., Ltd., of Sydney was to leave Sydney on January 24 for Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Is. and Tahiti, to investigate the possibilities of establishing further branch offices in the Islands.